Andrew G. Shead is head of the Old Testament department at
Moore Theological College
Moore Theological College, otherwise known simply as Moore College, is the theological training seminary of the Diocese of Sydney in the Anglican Church of Australia. The president of the Moore Theological College Council is ''ex officio'' t ...
, Sydney, Australia,
where he lectures in Hebrew, Old Testament and music.
Life
Shead earned a BSc (Med) (Sydney), a BTh, a MTh (ACT) and a PhD (Cantab).
From 1998 Shead holds a PhD at the
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
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with his doctoral dissertation ''Jeremiah 32 in its Hebrew and Greek Recensions'' under supervision of
Robert P. Gordon
Robert Patterson Gordon (born 9 November 1945) is a British scholar who was the Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1995 to 2012.
Early life
Gordon was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied at Methodist Colle ...
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He has been on the faculty at Moore College since 1992.
Among Shead's research interests it is included the book of Jeremiah, textual criticism, Hebrew poetry, and biblical theology.
From 2016, Shead is a member of the
New International Version
The New International Version (NIV) is an English translation of the Bible first published in 1978 by Biblica (formerly the International Bible Society). The ''NIV'' was created as a modern translation, by Bible scholars using the earliest an ...
Committee on Bible Translation, and maintains relationships with other international university educators.
Shead is married and has three children.
Shead has served in a number of churches around Sydney as an ordained
Anglican minister.
Works
Shead's most important "contribution to biblical theology" are insights into the
book of Jeremiah
The Book of Jeremiah ( he, ספר יִרְמְיָהוּ) is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and the second of the Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. The superscription at chapter Jeremiah 1:1–3 identifies the boo ...
,
("diachronic interest in the reconstruction of the compositional stages of the Book of Jeremian in both its
Masoretic
The Masoretic Text (MT or 𝕸; he, נֻסָּח הַמָּסוֹרָה, Nūssāḥ Hammāsōrā, lit. 'Text of the Tradition') is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in Rabbinic Judaism. ...
(MT) and
Septuagint
The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint (, ; from the la, septuaginta, lit=seventy; often abbreviated ''70''; in Roman numerals, LXX), is the earliest extant Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible. It includes several books beyond th ...
(LXX) forms"
) referred as "a valuable contribution to the continuation of the debate".
According to Dines "the nub of the question is whether the LXX reflects a Hebrew text 'earlier' and 'better' than that enshrined in the MT,
and "Shead has provided a wealth of material and argumentation for further debate. Nobody working on the history of Jeremiah, or on the character of LXX Jeremiah, should ignore his finding, or the path by which he has so patiently crawled towards them".
Sweeney claim that "although the details of S.'s somewhat harmonistic argumentation may be challenged at various point, he succeeds in demonstrating the complexity of text-critical work in Jeremiah.
Williamson affirm that the Shead's study is "careful and detailed research that obviously lies behind this presentation means that it will rapidly establish itself as a major contribution to a topic which has dominated Jeremiah studies for at least thirty years and which was prominent for many decades even before that".
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Old Testament scholars
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Translators of the Bible into English